A young girl learns how to run the base paths during Saturday’s Wilbert Ellis Youth Baseball Clinic at Fraser Field.

The youth of Ruston hit their “Field of Dreams” Saturday as they participated in the second annual Wilbert Ellis Baseball Camp at Fraser Field.

But this camp was about much more than the horsehide. Around 100 campers learned baseball fundamentals, but more importantly, they learned about the basic skills they’ll need to hit home runs in the game of life.

“I’m thrilled with the turnout, especially in this heat,” said Ellis, a College Baseball Hall of Fame coach who spent years directing the Grambling State Tigers program.

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When current Ruston High School Assistant Principal David Crowe started high school, he completed his first two years at Lincoln Parish High School, which at the time consisted of an all African-American student body, but soon found himself in the midst of a major change.
Starting in his junior year, Crowe and the rest of his classmates found themselves walking new halls, so to speak, this time at the newly integrated Ruston High School.

“We were transported to RHS at the beginning of my junior year. It was the 1969-70 school year,” he said.

New Tech @ Ruston teacher Dustin Whitlock is seen presenting an overview of project development during a recent collaboration between NT@R and Louisiana Tech University. Students from EDCI 471, a classroom management course within Tech’s College of Education, met in the new NT@R facility where they learned about the history of the program, the day-to-day implementation and how to develop and facilitate project-based learning.